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According to Armed, in the vast majority cases where victims who used guns to defend themselves were injured, it was the victim’s defensive actions that provoked the offender into attacking them

False

In Armed, the “Police Chief’s Fallacy” is discussed. This error in thinking about the effectiveness of victim resistance is due to the fact that:

Victims usually do not report to police crime incidents in which they did not get hurt or lose property

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According to Kleck in Armed,empirical evidence indicates that among the victim protective strategies on which we have data, defensive gun use is clearly the most effective one, from the standpoint of minimizing injury or property loss.

True

The _______________ was the first survey ever devoted to the subject of armed self-defense

National Self-Defense Survey

The survey referred to in question 1 indicates that each year in the United States there are about __________ defensive uses of guns of all types by civilians against humans.

2.2 to 2.5 million

According to Armed, in some defensive gun use (DGU) incidents, it is hard to be certain that the use of the gun was truly a DGU, because it was not yet clear that the other person was really attempting a crime. These sorts of incidents were called:

Not sure XXFalse DGUs (incorrect)

According to Kleck in Armed, which of the following is a reason the NCVS likely contributes to the underestimation of defensive gun use frequency:

All of the above

In Armed, Kleck notes that many people (police or civilian) who attempt to use guns for self-protection have the gun taken from them and used against them.

False

The policy implication that Kleck draws from large estimates of defensive gun use is

Gun prohibition would have serious costs because it would disarm many people who would have successfully used guns for self-protection

Which of the following victim actions most commonly occurs in defensive gun uses? The victim: